Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Antiquite Geographique De Linde / Geographical Antiquity Of India
De l'Imprimerie Royale
1775 - 1779
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A first edition copy of cartographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville's geography of India.
- Sold as 3 parts bound as one.
- Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (French).
- Antiquité Geographique De L'inde [with] Memoire Dur La Mer Caspienne [with] L'euphrate Et Le Tigre.
- Paris: De l'Imprimerie Royale, 1775, 1777, 1779.
- Quarto.
- Features five fold-out maps, Antiquité Geographique de L'Inde with three and L'Euphrate et le Tigre and Memoire dur la Mer Caspienne with one each, l'Euphrate without the supplement on Basra.
- Text in French.
- Bound in full contemporary brown leather with gilt lettering on red label, paneled spine with gilt decoration, edges of text block dyed red, marbled endpapers, with tail pieces to denote ends of sections.
Condition Report
GoodScuffing to leather boards.
Cracking to leather on spine, with top layer of leather missing from tail.
Splitting to hinges.
Headband split in half but intact.
Age-toning and light, scattered foxing to interior pages.
Signature of previous owner on title page, with ink listing of titles on second free endpaper and verso of title page.
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